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Columbus landing on Hispaniola, October 12, 1492; greeted by Arawak Indians. Litographi by Theodor de Bry (1528 – 27 March 1598) based on eyevitnesses. Public Domain Source: https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picha:Columbus_landing_on_Hispaniola.JPG

12. oktober 1492

Links:

The real Christopher Columbus. By Howard Zinn (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 10 October 2016). “There was no heroic adventure, only bloodshed. Columbus Day should not be a celebration.”

The Story of Columbus. By Marley-Vincent Lindsey (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 10 October 2016). “Popular writers looking to add nuance to the narrative about Christopher Columbus have instead muddied the waters. Here’s a more accurate story.”

A celebration of mass murder (SocialistWorker.org, October 15, 2009). “Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola document the real history of Christopher Columbus and the conquest of the ‘New World’.”

Columbus and the discovery of Latin America. By Stuart King (Permanent Revolution, 23 August 2008). “Mass killings, slavery and increasingly group suicides by the Arawaks themselves took a terrible toll of Hispaniola’s population.”

History not taught is history forgot: Columbus’ legacy of genocide. By Ward Churchill. Excerpted from the book Indians are Us?: Culture and Genocide in Native North America (Common Courage Press, 1994)

Columbus & the colonial legacy (New Internationalist, Issue 226, December 1991). “Wayne Ellwood explores the myth of discovery and looks at the famous mariner’s impact on the land and people of the Americas.”

Chicano students from the University of Wisconsin at Madison protest Columbus Day on October 12, 1992, the Columbus quincentennial. 500 years of resistance. Photo: University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Archives.

Se også:

Why do we honor genocide? By Khury Petersen-Smith (SocialistWorker.org, October 9, 2017). “The calls to end the celebration of Columbus Day have a relevance today beyond recognizing the atrocities of European colonialism.”

Columbus’ men chopping off noses, hands, and feet of Taino Natives that were unable to produce gold that they demanded.“They made gallows just high enough for the feet to nearly touch the ground … and they burned the Indians alive.” Illustration by Theodor de Bry in “A Short Account of the destruction of the Indies.” (1552) Public Domain.